Excellent video! His note (and yours) on inspiration brought to mind a quote by Ernst Cassirer... "Art - It is the dynamic process of life itself...the continuous oscillation between opposite poles, between joy and grief, hope and fear, exultation and despair. To give aesthetic form to our passions is to transform them into a free and active state. In the work of the artist the power of passion itself has been made a formative power."
Fan Ho had some trademark elements in his photography. Shadows, smoke and backlighting combined with strong geometry in his composition. Great work. He used to crop a lot btw.
Fan Ho's work is very unique and different than the other photographers of his time.. He's my BIGGEST inspiration in street photography.. Sometimes before clicking the shutter, I ask myself what would Fan Ho have done if he was in this situation? I just NEVER get bored of his work!!! Fantastic work and research, as always 👏🏻
As a long time resident of Hồng Kong Fan Ho’s work has always stood out. He captured an era in HK’s history that I wish I could have been privy to. (this might be a repeat comment as my first seems to have disappeared)
I am an aspiring street photography enthusiast. Simply this is one of my favourite channel not only to gain inspiration, but to learn the craft in a meditative way. Thank you for these non-clickbaity inspiring videos.
Fan Ho is one of my favourites. We are all definitely a product of our time. Sometimes I wonder what a different person I'd be if I were born only 5 years earlier or 5 years later because of how quickly pop culture changes and how one person's past is another person's present and how much that can influence style. We see Fan Ho's work (and the work of other street photographers decades ago) and feel nostalgia, when that was just everyday life for them. Not sure where I was going with this point lol, but for some reason you bringing up Justin Bieber just made me suddenly very reflective of pop culture and where inspiration comes from.
I totally get it you comment makes me think how much I also feel nostalgic looking at street photos from let’s say 40/50+ years ago because there was this beauty, this visual style of certain buildings, soda fountains, people always in suits it hits different than now don’t know but for some reason I also question myself would I be a different person if I was born 20/30 etc years ago. Interesting thinking.
One of my absolute favorite photographers and biggest inspirations ever! Thanks for the video and giving us an insight into his life. And of course: Yes yes yes to „Everything is connected“!
Fan Ho was one of my earliest influences. He is a master of light. I love your channel and the perspective that you bring. I find your videos educational and inspiring. For me, the continuing theme is be your authentic self. You remind me to slow down and really compose a shot. Shoot what you love and at the end of the day, your soul will be full. BEST photography channel on UA-cam
Wasn't really aware of him until I watched your video. I think I heard his name before, but have never seen a picture he made. Thank you for introducing him to me.
been studying the technical side of photography for like 1 year, now that i'm getting to art, and your channel has been helping me so much! thank you for your videos
Thank you. Excellent video on Fan, but more importantly thank you for inspiring me. I have found that in my struggle with depression, photography serves as a safe haven that allows me to detach. I love taking photos of light and shadow interacting in interesting ways, shapes, and patterns and when I'm doing that, everything else tunes out. I've been having a really rough week and haven't been able to get myself to do much of anything, but this little video somehow just lifted me up, at least a little.
I just discovered this channel and I really appreciate what you're doing here. There's too little out there on the art of photography (as opposed to purely technical stuff or reviews of the gear). I'm pretty well versed in the world of artistic photography, but I have to admit that I'm not that familiar with the work of Fan Ho, a photographer who I'm realizing is is really as great as any of the better known names in the medium. I really love the quality of light in the work, which is something that I try to put fourth in my own photography. You said something about inevitable "haters" in the video, that are likely to criticize Ho's later work as straying too far from straight photography. I look at photography though as a really wide open thing and I try to look at the work and not focus too much on waht gear or process was used. I took some photo classes decades ago in college and one of the tools that we used was a photo copier, which is essentially and kind of camera... so it's all photography to me. As far as Ho using a combination of film and digital media to make those late period collages, I don't see that as really all that significant as, I've seen plenty of work that looks very similar done in the darkroom. The digital tech certainly does make this kind of work easier, but I don't believe that the relative level of difficulty to create something should be any kind of arbiter of it's worth. As long as the artist gets what they want across, they have succeeded no matter waht technique or media that they've employed to create it. I actually liked these photo college pieces a lot. I need to check my local library and find some books of this Fan Ho guy's work... Very inspirational!
Fan Ho was a natural photo talent who lived and worked in earlier Hong Kong. HK was also diverse, lively and such a photo rich environment. Those of us who traveled to modern China will note HK was far less congested and more amenable to contemplative art. The people there are lively, work hard and are so expressive. Fan Ho was able to blend into the environment and capture moments & places in HK. Taking photos in such a growing, changing and pulsing place like Hong Kong could not give a curious person a better chance to record others. His work just swirls in my imagination. Well done.
His work was so unique, the ultimate eye of light and shadow (what photography is all about)...my greatest inspiration in photography. Thank you for this video 👍.
I love bridging the gap between digital and analog. Artists have an invitation to make it work. And if successful, as Fan Ho was, we advance the form without abandoning anything. It's all gain, no loss. The fidelity of craft is to the result just as much as the means to which we achieve it. Sour Patch for life.
I Think I Just Found My New Inspiration In The Film Photography World His Work Is Unreal...The Tonality In His Photos Bring Everything Together The Way The Light Blooms In His Shots Adds This Atmosphere That I'm Striving For In My B&W Work...
Hello, Jose from Puerto Rico. This is a wonderful channel. Fan Ho and Saul Leiter are right up there with my favorites. Hope to see a documentary on Jay Maisel done by you.
Thx. Now I'm going to try to get that single coated voightlander lens for that I've been looking at, and work at improving my black and white stuff. Fan Ho. Ok. "People Have The Power". I think Patty Smith collaborated with her Husband Fred Smith on that song. Pretty sure that Fred Smith was a Jazz musician in NYC. He was the original guitarist of the MC5 rock band also. I love Patty Smith. I really enjoy your shows. I'm an amature photographer for sure. I found that I liked the delicate detail in how Fan Ho exposed his highlights in his compositions. It shows me that I need to slow down and look for better locations to frame my people shots. I pretty much require people in my shots. Thx again.
I'm very happy UA-cam actually made a good channel suggestion for once, with your channel. It's great, smart, funny, insightful and very entertaining. Thank you
Don Mc’Cullum , Fan Ho and Peter Lindberg are my top favourites. This shot 0:37 alone is just stunning and I’m in awe every time I see it. Great Video ✌🏾
the work of Fan Ho, ( who I only heard about bc of you and this video), is exquisite. as usual, you and the subjects you choose, help to move and inspire me. thank you
Saw this posted at Reddit and had to jump over here to watch. Glad to see you've covered him, he's definitely one of my favs, and I think you did an awesome job representing his work in the video. 🙂
I love your channel. I never cared enough to find and study the better photogs of yester-years because I never knew where to begin. Thank you for teaching me about these artists. They make me feel happy to be a photographer again. There was a period in my love of photography that I became jaded. It was because I was doing farm work from sun up to sun down as an indentured slave during covid and my gear was in storage. I took a lot of beautiful photos on my wee iPhone 7s but still longed for the free time to use my gear. When I was able to go out with my real camera, I had alot of bad feelings within me, so much so that I couldn't focus on creativity. This latent period was fruitless and now I'm back taking photos with ethusiam and purpose but unfortunately my two favorite lenses , an 85 for street and 135 for portraits became infested with fungus. The 135 got it the worst. But I don't feel as bad as I should. It's an opportunity for me to use my manual focus 50, 20-35 zoom that is terrible, and my weird Russian Helios. Seeing the works of these photographers gives me new ideas and I'm very happy to see their work. I see alot of their work in my own but i keep seeing things I'm learning from.
the only right and wrong is have the photo in focus, don't have the photo be blurry. Everything else is what you want it to be. This guy had a nice style. Every photo is a moment in time and a story.
Always been a massive fan of.. Fan. So nice to learn more about the person and his history. Super interesting stuff, and great words from yourself too!
Thanks for this informative video along with all of the others you have produced. Great way to learn about the many inspirational photographers. Hard to imagine why anyone would give this a thumbs down. Keep up the good work.
A portion of Fan Ho work seems to be done by laying out the basic composition and then uses patience to wait and standby to allow characters to move into the composition and complete the narrative.
T, very inspirational video. You’ve touched upon some of my passionate inspirations: photography(of course), Fan Ho ( I have the great fortune of meeting him about 10 years ago-very humble man), Mahler(akin to reading Herman Hess), Li Po(the great mystical poet). Thank you for sharing the esoteric & fueling the fire for our emotional caldron. ✌🏼
That's fantastic Dennis if you can recommend me some Chinese poets I would love read their work and get more in touch with Chinese poetry (here or on IG @tffhopper). Also yes when I watched an interview with Fan Ho he really seemed such a humble person and genuine it was incredible!
@@TatianaHopper my go to escape from life’s bitter arrows is Anthology of Chinese Literature by Cyril Birch. It’s in two volumes, but I’m stuck in volume 1. The translation is exquisite. Flows lyrically & reads effortlessly. Here’s where I discovered Li Po & his most famous poem is included (4 poems on wine-they’re deliriously exquisite). It came out in 1965 & it’s still available on Amazon. Or you can scoured your local used books shops. Enjoy.
Always love your videos, Tatiana. I totally relate to the message in this one. I never want to waste anyone's time. (and you never do) I will often put your videos on and just let them play, one after the other. Hope you're doing well.
-When we see the world, we never see just a bunch of amorphous colors and shapes, but we see it as organzied in a certain way, and that organization is a projection of our inner world. David Hume was right when he talks about the mind's "propensity to spread itself on external objects." A photographer's job is never to capture the amorphous colors and shapes from the objective point of view, because there's no such point of view. Instead, his job is to capture his inner world that is projected onto the nihilistic world of amorphous colors and shapes. Master Ho was absolutely right that only through expanding the inner world, through music, poetry and other works of art, one can create art instead mere technically perfect images. When the ancient Chinese poet Li bai was looking at the moon one night more than a thousand years ago, what he saw was nostalgia, and his poem resonated with generations to come. And when you look like Ho Fan's work, you can really feel the poetic sensitivity exuding from his photographs. I've been binge watching your videos, they are deeply thoughtful and beautifully presented. The only comment about this particular video is that the intro of a Japanese street scene is a little distracting. The atrocities committed by the imperial Japan in other parts of Asia during WWII has not been as well publicised as that by the Nazi Germany. The time when Ho Fan was a young man coincided with the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the better parts of China. So the images of Japan street scene during the imperial era as an introduction of a Hong Kong photographer is not really congruent to the subject matter.
06:04. He seems to place shadow almost as another living entity in the photograph. But if you take the shadow away, his images often remind me of the shadow-less woodblock from Japan or indeed similar-ish Chinese painting. Anyway, BRAVO!, on your latest short. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Been a big fan of your videos and now a subscriber to your channel. LOVE many of your videos. This one on Fan Ho is no exception. Your sharing and examining of his work was inspirational. Bravo Tatiana, Bravo!! One thing though.. and perhaps because I too am Chinese... in your Intro clip... that was Japan, with Japanese people. For me, personally, that just doesn't work on many different levels. Perhaps ask yourself this question. If this video was "The Narrative Photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson", would you have used that same intro clip? I'd assume the answer would be no. Anyways, I think you get my point. That said, I'll continue to support your channel with great interests and look forward to more of your wonderful work. Peace.
Love the way Fan Ho used light and shadow. A true master. I also think you bring up an interesting point about the adoption of modern techniques. In the past photographers had to be inventors, chemists, carpenters etc just to get an image. I find it truly silly to say that any technology is forbidden in the pursuit of art, Artists must be master manipulators whether that is in storytelling or the darkroom or even in choosing what to capture. It should not be forgotten that at the end of his life Ansel Adams said that if he had to start over he would do so with "electronic photography".
Applause to that Edward, I agree if it makes sense and you like working with technology then do it. Its all about improving yourself and your work not the other way around.
@@reinhold61Well, most be people clueless about what tools they should use. Is knowing your camera settings boring ? U have no how to use it ? Or the software ?
Wow. Really fantastic work. Your storytelling touched on the unity of all art, the simplicity and complexity of making images, and the importance of awareness. I really enjoyed the tone of you video as well for it is able to so fluidly, and cohesively, discuss topics that are both central and vast. Love this content and I find inspiration in it. The "Fools" approve homie. Thank you for making work of this caliber and of this honesty.
Really enjoyed this. I don’t shoot Street but have always been in awe of Fan Ho’s work. Currently binge watching your videos having just come across it following watching a video from Grainydays. Really enjoying the content 👍
Hi Tatiana, I am a new subscriber to your channel that I find superb. Not only the content is excellent, but I really enjoy all the resources you put together to bring us very good videos. By the way I wonder where you find the beautiful classic and old documentary shootings you use in many of your YoutTube pieces.
Learning so much from your videos! I really like the new direction of your work also, I too want to capture those dreamy, atmospheric qualities in my future photographs and artwork. Thank you for creating, sharing and inspiring! especially in these days when motivation is low :) Love from Ireland!
It surprises me that people do not look beyond photography for inspiration for their photography . Afterall, the more you naval-gaze the less original your work is likely to be. I take inspiration from art galleries, conversations, literature, music, a walk with the dog, life in general. Whilst I think it is important to be aware of photographers, both past and contemporary, it is also important to take the time to think, to formulate your ideas and consider the feeling, emotion or story you are trying to convey. Also it is important to remember, photography is and should be fun. You do not need to create a masterpiece every time you load a roll of film!
Absolutely Baxter I think I touched that idea of having fun in a recent video can’t remember exactly but think it was about expired film. I think the keep word is happiness at the end of the day you need to do it because it brings you happiness and fulfilment as cliché as that may sound but it’s the truth - inspiration, photography, art projects, filmmaking etc..
Perhaps we can summarise: This is painting stories with light ... I suggest Mahler's fifth symphony for printing in the dark. Great video and clever analysis. Thank you for your work!
Very cool video. Thanks for exposing (no pun intended) his work to me. I love it. Oh, btw, I'm coming to weld your chair so that it can't move anymore 😁
Excellent video! His note (and yours) on inspiration brought to mind a quote by Ernst Cassirer... "Art - It is the dynamic process of life itself...the continuous oscillation between opposite poles, between joy and grief, hope and fear, exultation and despair. To give aesthetic form to our passions is to transform them into a free and active state. In the work of the artist the power of passion itself has been made a formative power."
That is amazing Joseph, I wasn't familiar with that quote.
is it expensive to buy his reproduced photos??@@TatianaHopper
Fan Ho had some trademark elements in his photography. Shadows, smoke and backlighting combined with strong geometry in his composition. Great work. He used to crop a lot btw.
Fan Ho's work is very unique and different than the other photographers of his time..
He's my BIGGEST inspiration in street photography..
Sometimes before clicking the shutter, I ask myself what would Fan Ho have done if he was in this situation?
I just NEVER get bored of his work!!!
Fantastic work and research, as always 👏🏻
Very interesting thoughts mustafa!
I hope you keep the essence of this channel as is. Please do not end up like art of photography and loose what the channel was about.
As a long time resident of Hồng Kong Fan Ho’s work has always stood out. He captured an era in HK’s history that I wish I could have been privy to. (this might be a repeat comment as my first seems to have disappeared)
could you say that again please? 😗
I had the pleasure of going to an exhibit of his about 10yrs ago. He was there as well.
best film photography channel on UA-cam fight me if you disagree 🤷🏻♂️
ahaha thank you Paul 🤍
AGREED!
This is a great channel!
Totally agree with you
@@TatianaHopper thank YOU for the awesome content - and keep being you!
I am an aspiring street photography enthusiast. Simply this is one of my favourite channel not only to gain inspiration, but to learn the craft in a meditative way. Thank you for these non-clickbaity inspiring videos.
Appreciate the support, thank you so much!
I would like to give multiple ‘thumbs up’. Thank you.
Fan Hos work is absolutley incredible. One of my favourite artists of all time.
Fan Ho is one of my favourites. We are all definitely a product of our time. Sometimes I wonder what a different person I'd be if I were born only 5 years earlier or 5 years later because of how quickly pop culture changes and how one person's past is another person's present and how much that can influence style. We see Fan Ho's work (and the work of other street photographers decades ago) and feel nostalgia, when that was just everyday life for them. Not sure where I was going with this point lol, but for some reason you bringing up Justin Bieber just made me suddenly very reflective of pop culture and where inspiration comes from.
I totally get it you comment makes me think how much I also feel nostalgic looking at street photos from let’s say 40/50+ years ago because there was this beauty, this visual style of certain buildings, soda fountains, people always in suits it hits different than now don’t know but for some reason I also question myself would I be a different person if I was born 20/30 etc years ago. Interesting thinking.
One of my absolute favorite photographers and biggest inspirations ever! Thanks for the video and giving us an insight into his life. And of course: Yes yes yes to „Everything is connected“!
Absolutely Karin, everything is connected ;)
Always interesting what you have to say. Fan Ho is a great photographer. One of my favourites. Thanks
Thank you Bart! Appreciate it!
Love your channel so much, your voice, the way you talk to us about photography, i became an instant fan. Regards form México
Thank you. Greetings to Mexico! :)
I'm a filmmaker and just came across your channel. Love it.
Thank you! You should check some videos I made on filmmakers they might interest you :)
Fan Ho was one of my earliest influences. He is a master of light. I love your channel and the perspective that you bring. I find your videos educational and inspiring. For me, the continuing theme is be your authentic self. You remind me to slow down and really compose a shot. Shoot what you love and at the end of the day, your soul will be full. BEST photography channel on UA-cam
Thank you much appreciate the kind words. All the best to you!
Fan Ho is one of my favorite photographers of all time. His work got me interested in photography
Same here!
God i love Fan Ho. His photography composition is so so so so so good. His photos to me are so poetic in a sense.
Wasn't really aware of him until I watched your video. I think I heard his name before, but have never seen a picture he made. Thank you for introducing him to me.
Thank you for watching and glad you enjoyed his work xx
I love this channel about art and not about new gear!
Thank you!
been studying the technical side of photography for like 1 year, now that i'm getting to art, and your channel has been helping me so much! thank you for your videos
Cheers Tiago & thank you for watching!
Utterly brilliant… again. Really enjoying your presentations.
Thank you Marcus!
Simply joyful your channel.
Keep it up, and don't loose your essence.
Congrats !
Thank you Sergio, much appreciated. And never, all true to your colours is one of my mottos 💪🏻
Thank you. Excellent video on Fan, but more importantly thank you for inspiring me. I have found that in my struggle with depression, photography serves as a safe haven that allows me to detach. I love taking photos of light and shadow interacting in interesting ways, shapes, and patterns and when I'm doing that, everything else tunes out. I've been having a really rough week and haven't been able to get myself to do much of anything, but this little video somehow just lifted me up, at least a little.
I just discovered this channel and I really appreciate what you're doing here. There's too little out there on the art of photography (as opposed to purely technical stuff or reviews of the gear). I'm pretty well versed in the world of artistic photography, but I have to admit that I'm not that familiar with the work of Fan Ho, a photographer who I'm realizing is is really as great as any of the better known names in the medium. I really love the quality of light in the work, which is something that I try to put fourth in my own photography.
You said something about inevitable "haters" in the video, that are likely to criticize Ho's later work as straying too far from straight photography. I look at photography though as a really wide open thing and I try to look at the work and not focus too much on waht gear or process was used. I took some photo classes decades ago in college and one of the tools that we used was a photo copier, which is essentially and kind of camera... so it's all photography to me. As far as Ho using a combination of film and digital media to make those late period collages, I don't see that as really all that significant as, I've seen plenty of work that looks very similar done in the darkroom. The digital tech certainly does make this kind of work easier, but I don't believe that the relative level of difficulty to create something should be any kind of arbiter of it's worth. As long as the artist gets what they want across, they have succeeded no matter waht technique or media that they've employed to create it. I actually liked these photo college pieces a lot. I need to check my local library and find some books of this Fan Ho guy's work... Very inspirational!
Fan Ho was a natural photo talent who lived and worked in earlier Hong Kong. HK was also diverse, lively and such a photo rich environment. Those of us who traveled to modern China will note HK was far less congested and more amenable to contemplative art. The people there are lively, work hard and are so expressive. Fan Ho was able to blend into the environment and capture moments & places in HK. Taking photos in such a growing, changing and pulsing place like Hong Kong could not give a curious person a better chance to record others. His work just swirls in my imagination. Well done.
Completely agree with you, dying to visit Hong Kong really !
His work was so unique, the ultimate eye of light and shadow (what photography is all about)...my greatest inspiration in photography. Thank you for this video 👍.
Thank you for watching!
Fabulous video, Miss Hopper. He is one of my favorite, inspiring photographers.
Thank you! Appreciate the kind words!
I love bridging the gap between digital and analog. Artists have an invitation to make it work. And if successful, as Fan Ho was, we advance the form without abandoning anything. It's all gain, no loss. The fidelity of craft is to the result just as much as the means to which we achieve it. Sour Patch for life.
Absolutely John completely agree with you on that and #sourpatchgang4life mate ahah
Just discovered his work in my design photography class this last semester ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Nice overview of Fan Ho - really enjoyed it!
Thanks for validating me and my love of listening to JBiebs when i’m darkroom printing. Love this channel even more now
Give it up for the Biebs! Cheers for watching Chris :)
I had two of Fan Ho's books here from the library. I wish I could afford to buy them so they would be here all the time.
Hopper...you are just amazing!!!!
Thank you Rafael! 🤍
So happy you made this video about Fan Ho! One of my favorite photographers 💗
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Fan Ho’s work is amazing! Thanks T for putting this together, you did a great job!!
Mahler! So nice! Great video, thank you Tatiana!
Thank you!
I Think I Just Found My New Inspiration In The Film Photography World
His Work Is Unreal...The Tonality In His Photos Bring Everything Together
The Way The Light Blooms In His Shots Adds This Atmosphere That I'm Striving For In My B&W Work...
💯
@@TatianaHopper Thanks For Doing These Videos
I Can Only Imagine How Much Work This Takes, But Know We Appreciate You And All Of Your Efforts
@@NoahBility thank you Noah. Appreciate you for taking your time to watch my videos!
Thank you for my afternoon watch !
Thanks for this video! I've always loved Fan Ho's photography.
A fan of Fan is friend o mine. Thank you.
Hello, Jose from Puerto Rico. This is a wonderful channel. Fan Ho and Saul Leiter are right up there with my favorites. Hope to see a documentary on Jay Maisel done by you.
Thank you Jose and Jay Maisel great idea!
Man, thanks for introducing me to Fan Ho. He's easily one of my favorites right now. Keep up the good work!
Thank you George!
Thx. Now I'm going to try to get that single coated voightlander lens for that I've been looking at, and work at improving my black and white stuff. Fan Ho. Ok. "People Have The Power". I think Patty Smith collaborated with her Husband Fred Smith on that song. Pretty sure that Fred Smith was a Jazz musician in NYC. He was the original guitarist of the MC5 rock band also. I love Patty Smith. I really enjoy your shows. I'm an amature photographer for sure. I found that I liked the delicate detail in how Fan Ho exposed his highlights in his compositions. It shows me that I need to slow down and look for better locations to frame my people shots. I pretty much require people in my shots. Thx again.
Oh my god! I am a photography student who just discovered your channel, what a gem! Thank you for your work I am addicted already🍷
Ahaha thank you. Enjoy the ride!
Fantastic subject to sink into. I love Fan so much
Thank you!
I'm very happy UA-cam actually made a good channel suggestion for once, with your channel. It's great, smart, funny, insightful and very entertaining.
Thank you
Thank you I appreciate it & welcome aboard! ;)
I had completely forgotten about Fan Ho, his work is incredible, definitely street photography goals
Absolutely Dan! Cheers for watching!
Love starting my work day with a nice coffee and a great photography video. Great job!
Thank you Alex!
Glad I came across your channel - keep going. Fan ho is a great choice.
Thank you Steve!
Don Mc’Cullum , Fan Ho and Peter Lindberg are my top favourites. This shot 0:37 alone is just stunning and I’m in awe every time I see it. Great Video ✌🏾
Thank you Simeon! ;)
the work of Fan Ho, ( who I only heard about bc of you and this video), is exquisite. as usual, you and the subjects you choose, help to move and inspire me. thank you
Couldn’t agree more Rebecca! Thank you for watching!
Wow! Thanks for this and for exposing me to the art of Fan Ho. Definitely will dive into his work.
Thank you Joe! Appreciate you taking the time for watching!
Saw this posted at Reddit and had to jump over here to watch. Glad to see you've covered him, he's definitely one of my favs, and I think you did an awesome job representing his work in the video. 🙂
Thank you so much!
I love your channel. I never cared enough to find and study the better photogs of yester-years because I never knew where to begin. Thank you for teaching me about these artists. They make me feel happy to be a photographer again. There was a period in my love of photography that I became jaded. It was because I was doing farm work from sun up to sun down as an indentured slave during covid and my gear was in storage. I took a lot of beautiful photos on my wee iPhone 7s but still longed for the free time to use my gear. When I was able to go out with my real camera, I had alot of bad feelings within me, so much so that I couldn't focus on creativity. This latent period was fruitless and now I'm back taking photos with ethusiam and purpose but unfortunately my two favorite lenses , an 85 for street and 135 for portraits became infested with fungus. The 135 got it the worst. But I don't feel as bad as I should. It's an opportunity for me to use my manual focus 50, 20-35 zoom that is terrible, and my weird Russian Helios. Seeing the works of these photographers gives me new ideas and I'm very happy to see their work. I see alot of their work in my own but i keep seeing things I'm learning from.
the only right and wrong is have the photo in focus, don't have the photo be blurry. Everything else is what you want it to be. This guy had a nice style. Every photo is a moment in time and a story.
Always been a massive fan of.. Fan. So nice to learn more about the person and his history. Super interesting stuff, and great words from yourself too!
Thank you! Nice pun by the way ;)
Hey there! I really like your channel and personality! Thanks for the videos!
Thank you! Appreciate it.
Thanks for this informative video along with all of the others you have produced. Great way to learn about the many inspirational photographers. Hard to imagine why anyone would give this a thumbs down. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Alan, I appreciate the kindness and for taking your time to write that comment, all the best!
A portion of Fan Ho work seems to be done by laying out the basic composition and then uses patience to wait and standby to allow characters to move into the composition and complete the narrative.
Love Fan Ho ........you have a great channel....Keep up the good work my friend...wish you all the best. Ramin :-)
Thank you Ramin and all the best to you.
Blown away in the first 30 secs. You did not waste my time, as promised!
Thanks so much!
Brilliant start to finish!
I like how relaxed you are swivelling that chair 😂
I’m a little child 😂
Love his work. Thank you.
Thank you for watching!
T, very inspirational video. You’ve touched upon some of my passionate inspirations: photography(of course), Fan Ho ( I have the great fortune of meeting him about 10 years ago-very humble man), Mahler(akin to reading Herman Hess), Li Po(the great mystical poet). Thank you for sharing the esoteric & fueling the fire for our emotional caldron. ✌🏼
That's fantastic Dennis if you can recommend me some Chinese poets I would love read their work and get more in touch with Chinese poetry (here or on IG @tffhopper). Also yes when I watched an interview with Fan Ho he really seemed such a humble person and genuine it was incredible!
@@TatianaHopper my go to escape from life’s bitter arrows is Anthology of Chinese Literature by Cyril Birch. It’s in two volumes, but I’m stuck in volume 1. The translation is exquisite. Flows lyrically & reads effortlessly. Here’s where I discovered Li Po & his most famous poem is included (4 poems on wine-they’re deliriously exquisite). It came out in 1965 & it’s still available on Amazon. Or you can scoured your local used books shops. Enjoy.
Always love your videos, Tatiana. I totally relate to the message in this one. I never want to waste anyone's time. (and you never do) I will often put your videos on and just let them play, one after the other. Hope you're doing well.
YES! I was hoping you’d do a video on Fan Ho! One of my favorite photographers
one of my favourite street photographers
Mine too!
T. Hopper I absolutely love Fan Ho's work. I still have alot off his work to see. Photography is subjective.
Absolutely!
Fan Ho work is realy amazing. amazinh light and shadow / lines composition. ou also have nice pictures. Nice work
i like the way you flow with the video, and you approach to its content as well, you made a new suscriber and ig follower
Thank you, appreciate your comment!
-When we see the world, we never see just a bunch of amorphous colors and shapes, but we see it as organzied in a certain way, and that organization is a projection of our inner world. David Hume was right when he talks about the mind's "propensity to spread itself on external objects."
A photographer's job is never to capture the amorphous colors and shapes from the objective point of view, because there's no such point of view. Instead, his job is to capture his inner world that is projected onto the nihilistic world of amorphous colors and shapes. Master Ho was absolutely right that only through expanding the inner world, through music, poetry and other works of art, one can create art instead mere technically perfect images. When the ancient Chinese poet Li bai was looking at the moon one night more than a thousand years ago, what he saw was nostalgia, and his poem resonated with generations to come. And when you look like Ho Fan's work, you can really feel the poetic sensitivity exuding from his photographs.
I've been binge watching your videos, they are deeply thoughtful and beautifully presented. The only comment about this particular video is that the intro of a Japanese street scene is a little distracting. The atrocities committed by the imperial Japan in other parts of Asia during WWII has not been as well publicised as that by the Nazi Germany. The time when Ho Fan was a young man coincided with the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the better parts of China. So the images of Japan street scene during the imperial era as an introduction of a Hong Kong photographer is not really congruent to the subject matter.
I'm two videos into your channel, and I'm learning so much already. Keep being awesome!
Thank you & you too! All the best ;)
So much value in all these videos 🙂 truly grateful for you
Thank you 🤍🤍
Beautyful again. I'd never heard of Fan Ho. Thank you for introducing him to me.
06:04. He seems to place shadow almost as another living entity in the photograph. But if you take the shadow away, his images often remind me of the shadow-less woodblock from Japan or indeed similar-ish Chinese painting. Anyway, BRAVO!, on your latest short. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Oh yeah I can see what you're saying makes sense, really good point there, thank you Ian!
Been a big fan of your videos and now a subscriber to your channel. LOVE many of your videos. This one on Fan Ho is no exception. Your sharing and examining of his work was inspirational. Bravo Tatiana, Bravo!! One thing though.. and perhaps because I too am Chinese... in your Intro clip... that was Japan, with Japanese people. For me, personally, that just doesn't work on many different levels. Perhaps ask yourself this question. If this video was "The Narrative Photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson", would you have used that same intro clip? I'd assume the answer would be no. Anyways, I think you get my point. That said, I'll continue to support your channel with great interests and look forward to more of your wonderful work. Peace.
Love the way Fan Ho used light and shadow. A true master. I also think you bring up an interesting point about the adoption of modern techniques. In the past photographers had to be inventors, chemists, carpenters etc just to get an image. I find it truly silly to say that any technology is forbidden in the pursuit of art, Artists must be master manipulators whether that is in storytelling or the darkroom or even in choosing what to capture. It should not be forgotten that at the end of his life Ansel Adams said that if he had to start over he would do so with "electronic photography".
Applause to that Edward, I agree if it makes sense and you like working with technology then do it. Its all about improving yourself and your work not the other way around.
Exactly. There are no limits to creativity. The discussion about tools is boring. The results are exciting.
@@reinhold61Well, most be people clueless about what tools they should use.
Is knowing your camera settings boring ? U have no how to use it ? Or the software ?
That street footage in the intro looks gorgeous!
Wow. Really fantastic work. Your storytelling touched on the unity of all art, the simplicity and complexity of making images, and the importance of awareness. I really enjoyed the tone of you video as well for it is able to so fluidly, and cohesively, discuss topics that are both central and vast. Love this content and I find inspiration in it. The "Fools" approve homie. Thank you for making work of this caliber and of this honesty.
That’s really kind of you thank you. I appreciate and we’ll keep doing what I can.
Really enjoyed this. I don’t shoot Street but have always been in awe of Fan Ho’s work.
Currently binge watching your videos having just come across it following watching a video from Grainydays. Really enjoying the content 👍
#grainydaysgang
Thank you Darren much appreciated and yes I don't shoot street either but his work can be so inspirational for everyone its amazing!
One of my favourite photographers, love his work!
很棒的视频，谢谢~👍
Beautiful video, T!
Hi Tatiana, I am a new subscriber to your channel that I find superb. Not only the content is excellent, but I really enjoy all the resources you put together to bring us very good videos. By the way I wonder where you find the beautiful classic and old documentary shootings you use in many of your YoutTube pieces.
Thank you I appreciate it, I find it online mostly different websites or UA-cam.
I appreciated this video and the great information about this amazing artist ! Greetings from Argentina
Another great video! I loved the images shown. Thanks T!
Thank you for another amazing video! Love Fan Ho’s work!
Thank you for watching Tim!
Learning so much from your videos! I really like the new direction of your work also, I too want to capture those dreamy, atmospheric qualities in my future photographs and artwork. Thank you for creating, sharing and inspiring! especially in these days when motivation is low :) Love from Ireland!
Hey there thank you for watching & I appreciate your words, much love from England!
Amazing! loved your work 👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you!
It surprises me that people do not look beyond photography for inspiration for their photography . Afterall, the more you naval-gaze the less original your work is likely to be.
I take inspiration from art galleries, conversations, literature, music, a walk with the dog, life in general.
Whilst I think it is important to be aware of photographers, both past and contemporary, it is also important to take the time to think, to formulate your ideas and consider the feeling, emotion or story you are trying to convey.
Also it is important to remember, photography is and should be fun. You do not need to create a masterpiece every time you load a roll of film!
Absolutely Baxter I think I touched that idea of having fun in a recent video can’t remember exactly but think it was about expired film. I think the keep word is happiness at the end of the day you need to do it because it brings you happiness and fulfilment as cliché as that may sound but it’s the truth - inspiration, photography, art projects, filmmaking etc..
I'm coming from poetry and magical realism to poetry. I'm trying to let that inform how I approach photography.
Nice job. I really liked your video.
Great video! Thank you!
please keep making such videos, thank you 👍, one suggestion is to make a video on Cinematographer, Photographer Wolfgang Suschitzky...
Thank you! I will definitely look it up.
Perhaps we can summarise: This is painting stories with light ...
I suggest Mahler's fifth symphony for printing in the dark.
Great video and clever analysis. Thank you for your work!
Thank you Reinhold and yes completely agree with you painting with light.
amazing! thank you for this
Excellent video Dear.
Thank you so much! 🙏🏻
Very cool video. Thanks for exposing (no pun intended) his work to me. I love it. Oh, btw, I'm coming to weld your chair so that it can't move anymore 😁
Thank you for watching Marco!
i love your channel :) thank u for sharing
Thanks for watching!